(Original post at Cultbox)
Although previous chapters have felt obscure and frustrating at times, this week’s episode is tightly plotted and anxiety inducing throughout.
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Fortitude: Season Two, Episode Four
(Original post at Cultbox)
The fourth episode of Fortitude Season 2 slowly reveals more depths of its central mystery, but provides plenty of conflict to satisfy the audience.
Fortitude: Season Two, Episode Three
(Original post at Cultbox)
In this week’s episode, Fortitude slows its pace and focuses on its living residents.
Arrival
Let’s make one thing clear- Arrival, Denis Villeneuve’s science fiction drama about first contact, will not win the Oscar for Best Picture. The category is crowded with powerful adversaries, some deserving and some not (I’m looking at you, La La Land). Given its competitors and Hollywood’s aversion to science fiction, Villeneuve and his team are unlikely to go home with the top prize- however much they might deserve it.
Fortitude: Season Two, Episode Two
(Original post at Cultbox)
This week’s episode is surprisingly gore free, but delivers a terrifying set piece when a stray polar bear enters Fortitude’s primary school and traps a child inside.
Fortitude: Season Two, Episode One
(Original post at Cultbox)
“Life is hard in Fortitude,” says series creator Simon Donald, and after the events of Season 1, it’s difficult not to agree with him.
Placebo, Birmingham Barclaycard Arena
Twenty years after the band’s debut album, Placebo have embarked on a world tour to celebrate their legacy. Their alternative rock stylings, suffused with hints of glam-rock swagger, earned them a passionate following in the UK. Fans were out in force to witness Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal return to Birmingham at the Barclaycard Arena, and were justly rewarded for their loyalty.
Lucy, Lucy and Lucy, Warwick Arts Centre
(Original post at The Boar)
In her new solo-show Lucy, Lucy and Lucy Barfield, Lucy Grace demonstrates the truth behind C. S. Lewis’ adage that “there are no ordinary people.” Moving, funny, and often deeply sad, Grace tells the story of her search for Lucy Barfield, C. S. Lewis’ god-daughter and the inspiration for Lucy Pevensie.
Jessica Jones: ‘AKA Smile’
TW: rape
We’ve reached the end of the first season Jessica Jones, and this final episode encompasses all the things I love about the series as a whole. Though not perfect, AKA Smile strikes a good balance between character development and scrappy action sequences, something which the show has historically struggled with. The hospital sequence was well-paced, and the final fight with Kilgrave combined a police raid with a silent disco, which is too charming not to love.
Holmes for Rent, Edinburgh Fringe
(Original post at The Boar)
At the Edinburgh Fringe- that great festival into which all the actors and comedians of the world are irresistibly drained- there are more musicals than you could see in a week. Perhaps more surprisingly, there are a great many shows about Sherlock Holmes. Musical Theatre Warwick’s Holmes For Rent, an adaptation of Christian Blex’s German musical Sherlock H., is perhaps the only production that is both.
Bethan Ackerley 